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New Delhi: Muhammad Ali Vakil grew up in Dubai in the early 1990s, suspended between worlds: learning and internalising Islam at the madrasa, and feverishly reading Tintin, Asterisk and Obelix, and Tinkle at home. When he and his brother moved back to India, in 2009, this duality took form as Sufi Studio – a graphic narrative studio that focuses on narrating stories of Muslim culture. They have since published multiple volumes of Sufi Comics, which chronicle a range of myths and folklore. 

Their latest offering, Journey in Grace, is a slight shift from their previous work. The memoir of David L. Sterling, whose parents were holocaust survivors, tells the story of his transition and conversion to Islam: “how can ‘my people’ be the ‘chosen people’ and others somehow lower? After meeting ‘others,’ it seemed arrogant,” wonders the........

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